WWI American Imperial M3 Fighting Knife

An WWII American Imperial M3 Fighting Knife - As carried by American Paratroopers during the Second World War - This knife is in a very saught after condition; showing period wear, toning however remaining in a strong and supple state. A nice condition guard marked Imperial M3 and comes with the correct M8 Sheath. The knife is 293mm overall with a 171mm blade. The blade is darkened and rates at extremely fine. The end cap is stamped with the flaming bomb. Sheath is marked U.S.M.C. MILSCO 1942 with a flaming bomb. An excellent example of this famous WWII American knife.

A First War American 3rd Army; 32nd Division Doughboy Tunic - This tunic is fabricated from an olive drab wool, each shoulder with epaulette straps held in place via small bronze buttons with the United States coat-of-arms. The left shoulder has a 63 mm three-color 3rd Army patch, comprised of two white strips of cotton forming the "A" enclosed in a red cotton circle, all sewn on a navy blue wool base. Immediately below is a 25 mm x 90 mm 32nd Infantry Division patch, illustrating a red embroidered arrow with a horizontal line through the middle, on a black wool base. The upper left arm has a Discharge Stripe, composed of a upward-pointing red wool chevron on an olive drab wool base, while the lower left forearm has a pair of downward-pointing gold-bullion wire War Service Chevrons, each representing six months overseas service. There are bronze collar disks held firmly in place via screwbacks on both collars, the right collar with a U.S. Army disk, the left collar with an "M.G." (Machine Gunner) disk. The hook and eye closures at the collar have been lost to time but the protective tab remains on the left side. The front has four large pockets, one on each breast, with slightly larger pockets below each, all pockets with the same small bronze buttons as used with the epaulette straps and have fold over flaps with a reinforced buttonhole. Inside the lower right pocket is a maker label inscribed "LEOPOLD MORSE CO. BOSTON MASS. Contract No. 1030. Feb. 16, 1918 BOSTON DEPOT" with an ink stamping along the bottom of the label that has faded over the years. The front is completed by a vertical row of five large bronze buttons, each with the United States coat-of-arms, the reverses maker marked "AM BUTTON CO. NEWARK N.J.", facing an equal number of reinforced button holes on the left. The inside of the tunic is unlined, with a 42 mm wide brown cotton strip in the collar, to protect the neck from the coarseness of the wool, along with a 65 mm long brown cotton strap for hanging the tunic on a hook. The tunic measures 440 mm across the shoulders and 740 mm in length overall, exhibiting scattered mothing on the back panels and on the 3rd Army patch, the second and third large buttons on the front having been re-sewn to the uniform. The tunic continues to exhibit flawless, quality workmanship, thanks to the superior fabrics employed, with intact stitching, maintaining its original period look. Near extremely fine.
Footnote: The 32nd Infantry Division was organized from the Michigan and Wisconsin National Guard at Camp MacArthur, Texas in August 1917. The arrow was selected because they “shot thru every line the Boche put up”. The Division's First World War campaigns included: Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne, Meuse-Argonne, Alsace and Champagne.

Sterling silver with red, white, blue, black, yellow and green enamels, illustrating flags of the Entente Alliance nations, including: Serbia, France, the Kingdom of Italy, Belgium, the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Russian Navy Ensign, the United States and the United Kingdom, each of the eight flags linked to a clip on their left side, and when joined together, forms a bracelet. Each of the flags is maker marked "RYRIE", marked "STERLING" and registered date marked "REGD. 1915" on the reverse and measure 9.7 mm x 10.5 mm, the bracelet measuring 168 mm in length, extremely fine.

A WWI Map of the Western Front Named to American Flyer - Map obverse printed in four-colour ink (red, blue, yellow and black), entitled "Kenyon's Map of the Western Battle Front", tagged "Copyright 1918" and manufactured by "The Kenyon Co., Map Makers, Des Moines, Iowa", with fold lines. Map charts the areas of southeast England, Central and Eastern France, Belgium, Southern Holland, Luxembourg, northwest Switzerland, Western Germany and the disputed region of Alsace-Lorraine, detailed with cities and towns, railways, country boundaries, canals, roads, rivers and other bodies of water. It features fifteen squares in red with corresponding numbers, illustrating the "hot spots" throughout France and Belgium. The map is scaled in miles, with the battle lines shown in red (dotted lines illustrating the advance in 1914, solid lines illustrating the battle front on March 21, 1918). There are two inset maps in the lower left corner: one of the Eastern Front (map illustrating northeast Germany, Poland, Austria, Romania, northern Bulgaria and Russia), the other of the Italian Battle Front (map illustrating southern Austria, northeast Italy and southeast Switzerland). The reverse printed in black ink with an Index of Towns, the map measuring 607 mm x 627 mm. Upper left corner of the map pasted into a canary yellow folder, printed in black ink, entitled "KEYSTONE TRADE MARK / WAR MAP OF WESTERN BATTLE FRONT OF EUROPE / WITH BATTLE LINES SHOWN IN RED", keystone outline below, the aforementioned in a large, thick keystone outline, inscribed in handwritten black ink "Lieut. Lester D. Mayne, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas." and "U.S. Air Service.", map folds up into the 89 mm x 157 mm folder. Scattered tears evident along the fold lines of the map, wear evident along the edges and reverse of the folder, better than very fine.